Friday, April 3, 2009

"Tumbuk" means pound or crush, so since the ingredients (fruits and dressing) is being pound together in a wooden mortar, thus we called it as "Rujak Tumbuk".

Some people also called it as Rujak Bèbèk since this rujak is originally a Betawi food (Betawi is addressed for the descendants people who live in Batavia - the old colonial name for Jakarta). In Betawi language, "Bèbèk" means also pound/crush. It's pronounce differently than the word "Bebek" which means duck in Indonesian national language.

The ingredients to make the sauce:And not forgetting the brown coconut sugar (gula jawa).Pound the fruits together with the ingredients of the sauce.It's done :)A good idea to make a long spoon with a wooden stick ;)

Rp. 4.000 per cup(currency 1 USD = Rp. 11.600)

Out of the topic - Someone plagiarized my posts!!! :(

Yesterday, while browsing on the internet, I found out an Indonesian girl who owns a food blog, has been taking my posts and published them in her blog. She just copy paste directly my posts - text and photos (of course, she cropped the photos first to delete my blog address).

Well, this is not the first time when I found out people are using my photos in their blogs but for this case, just copy paste directly my whole text plus photos and without a permission from me and pretends the posts are hers, gosh... how could she!!! I already left a complain comment in her blog but there's no reaction so far from her.

Actually, I have no problem if people want to use my photos (I even feel flattered) but then, I expect that at least, they'll put a credit to my blog and not use my text as if they are the ones who wrote the post.

Selba, there's nothing I can say that will make you feel any better. There is an outside chance that if she advertises on her blog you could let the advertisers know what is going on. As an interim measure move your signature or water mark to the center of your photos.

pearl: I just add the Creative Commons License to my food blog in order people to protect my content. Not so sure whether it will prevent people of taking my photos or text but I think I'll give it a try :)

little inbox: All Indonesian rujak buah are using fresh fruits ;) You think watermark in the centre of pic will look nice?

the rujak tumbuk is really old school. I wish to see them making it...nice nice!Sorry to hear that there was plagarism on yuor blog...why people can be stupid...but another good side of it is your blog is good...that's why stupid people out there want to copy. Like those people copy branded bag, they won't copy unknown brand haha..

joe: Yeah, I'm considering to put my watermark in the middle but still not sure yet.Hehehe... yup, looks like a paste :D

simple girl: Sounds like that a lot of similiarity between Indonesia and Malaysia in term of food street but too bad, no more in Malaysia.Hahaha... you are so funny using the branded bag as an example :D

Whatever in the world is lobi-lobi? Such a cute name! There is a widespread trend of people lifting chunks from blogs and pasting it as their own. I am bewildered as to WHY they'd do something like that? Surely they can't derive ANY joy or pleasure from such a brazen, dishonourable act!

bits of taste: Wow! Thank you so much for your compliments :D *blushing*

email2me: You tried this rujak? Nice ya? :)Well, if I put her link in here, it's like promoting her blog which for sure I will avoid it. She is using spaces.live blog, in a big wide so it's also quite difficult for me to copy her blog into my post. Hmmm... but maybe I will try to figure it out. Thanks for your advice :)

donna-ffw: Hahaha... yes! that would be great if her butt got kicked :DCrushed fruit salad is usually very spicy because of the chili padi!

nic: I already left my comment in her blog and believe that she has read it yet. Oh, you will love eating crushed fruid salad because of the chili, it really can makes your eyes blink blink and teary, hehehe...

The salad sounds very exotic and delicious! I haven't seen coconut sugar in the stores here, but I once made it by accident - trying to make a coconut syrup, forgetting about it on the stove and boiling it too much - then it crystalized and turned into sugar! I used it for all kinds of things, it was awesome!

I am so intrigued by this fruit salad. I would love to be able to taste all of the flavor combinations, especially with the coconut sugar. It's funny to think that we can eat something different every day of our lives and still not even come close to tasting everything that's out there!

Some people are just too much. I can understand how upset you were when finding out someone was stealing your posts and pics. It happened to me once. A guy took a photo from my blog and when I complained to him about taking the pic without asking, he had the guts to tell me he had every right to take my photo. What the hell??!

I loved reading about and seeing your photos of “rujak tumbuk.” It’s really interesting to read about the history of a dish and the people who originated it, especially in Indonesia where there’s so much regional diversity. The combination of fruits sounds delicious, although it isn’t what I normally associate with a fruit salad! So healthy and inexpensive, too.

I’m sorry to hear that someone plagiarized your posts! That’s beyond frustrating, and I hope you find a way to protect all the hard work you’ve put into your great blog. The fact that she’s duplicating your work and taking credit for it is truly appalling.

I heard a lot of bloggers were having trouble with such plagiarism. Rasa Malaysia being one.On the bright side, at least that means people think so highly of your blog that they find it worthy to steal it! I'm not condoning them, but just...trying to cheer you up I guess! hee!how did you find out though? what are you gonna do if she still doesn't respond but also refuses to take that down?

sapuche: Hehehe… I guess the rujak tumbuk doesn’t really have an appealing look, but believe it tasted really good ;)Thank you for your kind words, Sapuche!

cumi & ciki: You sure you can tahan very hot spicy chili? Yay! *hands in a cup of rujak tumbuk*

jude: Yup, she is so cunning by deleting my signature/address of my blog :(

burpandslurp: Thanks a lot for cheering me up, Sophie! :)I was browsing and coincidentally found my photos under a different address of a blog. Well, I’m not so sure what I will do if she doesn’t respond or refuses to take down but for sure I will try my best to protect my post from now on.

lori: Hi Lori, welcome to my blog :) Yeah, you are so right? When people can't write then they should not have a blog and steal others writing and pretend that they are the writer but then, sometimes they want to follow the "trend" because other people have blogs so they also must have their own (copy cat), or they just are completely stealer.

Sel, sorry to learn that you've been plagiarized. Guess it's time for you to watermark the photos. I know watermark is annoying unless there's a better way to protect your work. And to the lady who does it, it explains her personal ethics. Doesn't it make you wonder if she went to college and graduated, how did she do that?